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MACl-HNERY FOR SETTlNG UP TYPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,265, dated December 20, 1892.

Application filed November 23, 1891. Serial No. 412,814. (No model.)

' the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object:first, to enable a compositor working a type-setting machine to expeditiously make divisions or breaks in the continuous line of type which issues from the machine so as to divide this line into short lines of approximately the rerequired length for the width say of the page of a book; second, to deliver these short lines one by one into a galley by the action of a pusher which is continuously reciprocating to and fro.

For setting up type into a continuous line I employ a setting up machine such as is described in the specification of a British patent granted to me No. 477 in the year 1874. In this machine the various type are contained in reservoirs and whenever a type is required to be taken from any one of the reservoirs the lowest type in that reservoir is ejected by a pusher actuated by an electro magnet.

According to my present invention I provide the setting up machine with an indicator one hand or pointer of which indicates on a dial the increase in length of the type line as each; type is liberated from its reservoirwhile another pointer indicates the number of words or spaces in the line. To give motion to the hands or pointersI attach contact arms to the arinatures of the electro magnets above mentioned by which when any one or other of the armatures is drawn to its magnet a circuit is completed through the coils of one or other of a series of electro magnets used for giving movement to the hands of an indicator and I so arrange the mechanism that the amount of movement given at each movement to the hands is made dependent upon the thickness of each particular type. -When the operator sees by the indicator that the end of a line is arrived at he causes two specially formed blanks to beset up at the end of the line to divide it from the next. The armature of the electro magnet which causes the delivery of the second blank carries a contact arm which completes a circuit through the coils of another electro magnet the armature of which when attracted liberates the indicator hands from their axes and allows them to be broughtbackto zero byaweightorspring. To deliver the short lines one by one into a galley I make the line of type as it advances toward the galley to pass under a finger or feeler which is pressed lightly against the type by a spring. The finger is made to bear upon the center of each type as it passes below it. The blanks above mentioned are hollowed at the center so that when the blanks come below the finger the finger drops between them and two pins which it carries drop into two holes formed through the two ends of the foremost blank. The finger is carried by a block which can be moved to and fro along guides which are parallel with the line of type. As the finger drops, an arm on the opposite side of its axis is raised. This brings it. into the path of a pusher to which a slow reciprocating to and fro movement is continuously imparted. lVhen the pusher in its forward movement comes against the tail end of the fingerit carries the finger forward along with it and so carries forward the blank which the finger is holding and all the types that are in front of the blank and pushes them into one of the lines or divisions of a galley which at the time has been brought to coincide with the line of type. After a line has so been delivered into the galley it is caused to rise a proper distance by a rack attached to it and by a pawl moved at the required time.

Figure 1 is a diagram plan view of the machine, showing the electrical connections for one of each of the magnets. Fig. 1 is adiagram view of all of the electrical connections. Fig. 1 is a plan view on a larger scale of the left-hand portion of the machine, and Fig. 1, a similar view of the right-hand portion of the machine. Fig. 1 is a section on a larger scale on the line a, b, Fig. 1, showing the mechanism for ejecting type, one by one, from the bottom of the reservoirs. Fig. l is a section on the line 0 d, Fig. 1 Fig. I is a plan View of the parts shownin these figures. Fig. 1 is a section on a larger scale, taken through the line cf, Fig. 1, and showing the mechanism for setting up the type into line. 

